Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plays in effect present contrasting visions of two trapped women: one wants to write, and one is forced to. I Can Feel the Air is a tale of a triumphant soul whereas The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the inexorable crushing of a human spirit...
...Generations is not art or, for that matter, definitive history, but it is a show-biz tour de force. An exceedingly clever and affecting soap opera, Roots II manages to play on the most basic sentimental feelings about democratic ideals and familial love. When, in the final hours, the tale turns to Alex Haley's career, it also becomes an irresistible American success story. Taken as a whole, Roots 11 is a compendium of pop cul ture: it mixes elements of Gone With the Wind, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, March of Time newsreels, Horatio Alger sto ries...
...Flood's acquittal during the almost twelve hours of deliberation. The result: a mistrial-and a federal investigation into the reasons for it. Last week, TIME has learned, federal agents received information linking Cash with individuals described as "associates of Flood." Cash denies everything, but a strange tale has begun to unfold...
...tale of how a Pole named Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski became the English novelist Joseph Conrad is as crammed with accidents and uncertainties as any of his fictions. It has been told before, but not recently and never in such detail. Biographer Frederick R. Karl, a professor of English at the City University of New York, has sifted through all the documents and some 4,000 surviving Conrad letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different...
...This tale serves as a parable for the Harvard basketball team, which has been in a revolving door all season. With 11 straight Ivy League games ahead, though, it's still not too late for the Crimson to cross the threshold to a successful season...